With incisive analytical skill and a business focus, Dan helps clients understand how intellectual property (IP) protections can help them achieve their business goals.
Dan focuses his practice on patents, trademarks and copyrights, as well as advertising, marketing and eCommerce. He combines an electrical engineering and mathematics background, legal skills and a competitive spirit with strong business experience: He spent 14 months as full-time in-house trademark counsel for a Fortune 250 company during a secondment.
As a patent attorney registered with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Dan drafts and prosecutes electrical, mechanical, internet-based and business method patent applications for large corporations and research laboratories. He has substantial experience in post-issuance proceedings, including as lead counsel in the first two post-grant reviews ever to be instituted, and provides IP litigation support in patent, trademark, trade dress, trade secret and unfair competition lawsuits.
Dan also prosecutes foreign and domestic trademark applications and enforces trademark rights for multinational corporations, including proceedings against domain-name cybersquatters.
Experienced with the National Advertising Division of the Better Business Bureau, Dan helps clients with mobile and digital applications used in social media for marketing or other purposes.